Intel® Desktop Board D945GTP Review Intel® Desktop Board D945GTP Review

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Sunday, March 12, 2006

Article: Intel® Desktop Board D945GTP Review (Mature for Business Segment)

V. Performance Testing

It's time to put the motherboard to the test*. Since it's targetted at the small busines and home segment, I will try to put mainstream parts to the system. I used One Gigabyte of RAM to simulate a typical mid-end business computing sytstem. I also decided to use a RAID-0 set-up to simulate fast disk access subsystem, take a gander at the Sandra File Access results. I will test it in two configurations: Single Core System and Dual Core system.

  • Intel® Pentium® 4 510ES
  • Intel® Pentium® D 820ES
The first run will be to simulate home-use and budget small office system.

Intel® Pentium® 4 510ES (2.8GHz/1MB/533MHz)

  • Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 510
  • Motherboard: Intel® Desktop Board D945GTP
  • Memory: 1024MB Nanya DDR2-533 (2x512MB CL4-4-4-12)
  • Hard Disk: 2x Seagate 80GB 7200rpm SATA RAID 0
  • Video Card: On-board, 64MB shared
  • Optical Drive: LD DVD Drive
  • Floppy Drive: Generic
  • Chassis: Mars 722 Orbit
  • Power Supply: WinHec 550W
  • Operating System: Windows XP SP2

::Subsystem Test::

PCMark02

PCMark04

PCMark05

Sandra-CPU

Sandra-Multimedia

Sandra-RAM Bandwidth

Sandra-File Access

::3D Test::

3DMark01SE

3DMark03

3DMark05

3DMark06

The system performs decently even when using an on-board graphics. The 3DMark01SE results is above average, rivaling the performance of discrete video cards. It's a lot faster than many older cards, such as the early GeForce FX5200, X300SE, and GeForce 6200. PCMark results shows what is to be expected from the system, and has been consistent with what I've seen with similar specifications. Sandra-RAM bandwidth suffered a bit, but that is to be expected when the System Memory is being shared with Graphics Memory. Hard Disk bandwidth is also not a slouch!

*: In the tests, I am not be able to provide links to submissions due to the fact that I only use the shareware version. For example, Futuremark's PCMark04 only allows one active publication of score, though users can have as much as five(5) entries, but only one can be made public. And in the future reviews and article, providing a link will make older link obsolete. To circumvent this, I will just use screenshots of the results

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